Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-05-09

for the accommodate .lon of tourists, but still !
her spring gues,es fell off nearly 10000.
On the other nand, California has erected
but six or eight new hotels for tourists,
has provided only two new resorts and
though she has lost by fire the largest
and most attractive Of all her homes for
visitors, yet the tourist travel Of the year
has been double that of any previous sea-
son, and promises to keep up TO the stand
ard for the remainder of the year. We
have not only taken the 10000 Florida
has lost but scme 10000 others, in addi-
ton to the influx of visitors during last
year,
1t is evident that by another year her
accommodations will BE- wholly inadequate.
Oar own people very nearly fill the hotels
at seaside and spring and mountain resorts
in the warm season. and the Eastern tour
| lists are compelled to take their chances
or occ1py their cars. Last year it was
painfully felt that there was not room,
save possibly at Monterey, for the stran-
gers, and as result great numbers of
them made only flying visits to spots
where else they might have remained for
weeks. What we need in central and
northern sections is accommodations espe-
cially inviting to Eastern people, at our
chief points of resort and outside of the
l L. -
now flows, we will be unable to entertain
the visitation of next year. As it was,
Southern California was not equal to the
task last year, nor has it been thus far
into 1887.
1t would appear that about as strong in
vitation as is made to capital is now
presenting for investment in structures
for the accommodation of visitors.
With possibly two or three exceptions
at the utmost, the hotel and summer ac-
commodations interior and seaside resorts,
are not up to the standard of the demand.
Those at the springs are, for the most part,
i'll adapted, and SAVIOR of the raw and from
tier period. California must prepare for
the entertainment of her tens of thousands
of guests in very much better style than
prevails at most of her resorts, or see the
tide turn away. Next year there will be a
proper hotel in Yosemite and late this
year Del Monte will be restored, while the
new structure at Pacific Grove is already
open. But aside from these, there are in
Central and Northern California no such
evidences of preparation as the steadily
swelling current of tourist travel certainly
warrants. There are but one or two
places besides those named, in the whole
region, that, in comforts and home-like
surroundings, and response to the demands
of society, approach the standard to
which the tourist from the East is accus-
toned on the other side.
We have not nearly the accommodations,
proportionally to the demand, that Florida
and the southwest have provided, and vet
with failing tide Florida continues to
prepare new attractions in the way OF
hotels with highly-improved grounds, and
cottages with all the comforts of home,
both at the seaside and at springs resorts.
| We do not know in all our mountain
region a single point where there is arti-
fetal experimenting natural attractions
such as there should be, and very few OF
our sanitariums where provision is made for
accommodating numbers in excess of our
own people who go out of the towns and
cities to seashore mineral springs, or noun
tain lakes or other resorts in the summer.